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Adobe’s big day: Flex 3 and AIR beta 2, and Buzzword aquired!

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:57:49 +0000

Adobe just released the newest beta versions of Flex 3 and AIR. These new releases are nearly feature complete. Matt Chotin wrote a nice article about the new features in this new release, but you can also find a full list of features on the FlexWiki of Adobe. Some of the newest features were already discussed by Ted Patrick last week and those features are looking really promissing. The other great news of today is that Adobe aquired Virtub, and with it their main product Buzzword. This application is a complete online word processing tool which was in private beta for a long time, but recently Virtub annouched more openings so that everyone can get an account today! Check it out because it’s awsome!

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Flex 3 beta & Adobe AIR available on Adobe Labs

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:51:32 +0000

Finally! After a great week of feature lists (by Ted Patrick) and quite some speculations on when the beta of Flex 3 would see its first daylight, here it is! It just got released together with the beta of Adobe AIR, which is the new name for Apollo and a new update for Flash Player 9. There is a big list on the Adobe Labs Wiki with a lot of Feature Introductions concerning Flex 3. It looks very promissing and great!

Download the new stuff from Adobe Labs or directly from:

Flex 3 Beta
Adobe AIR (Apollo)
Flash Player 9 update

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Adobe Flex 3 sneak preview

Wietse Veenstra — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:59:41 +0000

Today we got to see one of the first sneak previews of Flex 3 by Waldo Smeets and I must say that there are some very nice features and improvements coming up in this new release. All of the new features which were shown us today are still in the ‘thinking’ process so they might not even survive till the official release but most will I think! A public beta release will be published on Adobe Labs very soon according to Waldo and the official release will be somewhere at the end of this year I guess. I summed up some of the cool new features below.

One of the new features is that the Apollo SDK will be integrated in Flex 3 from the beginning on so you don’t have to download a patch to ensure the functionality in Flex anymore. Another great thing in the new version will be, and they listened very good to the users of Flex over at Adobe for this one, is the ability to zoom in the Design View. You can zoom up to 500% (at least in this early build). The datagrid has also improved a lot (this is the one component where Flex users get a lot of problems with), there will be an Advanced DataGrid with support for multiple sorting, merging cells, tree-like structures within the datagrid and some other cool new features. Furthermore, the new Flex will allow you to select the version you want to compile for, Flex 2.0.1 hotfix 2 or Flex 3 were in that list in the preview. Also new is the Profiler which lets you build another version of your project from which you can review a lot of statistics, including memory usage of each separate component in your project, etc. The last new feature I want to name is ‘Refactoring’. This allows users to select for example a function name, and then quickly rename this in your entire project. So every copy of the function name in the entire project will be renamed in one click. A very good feature in my opinion. I hope the beta will be released soon because I’m very eager to start working/testing with it!

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Adobe Live 2007, here I come!

Wietse Veenstra — Tue, 29 May 2007 06:33:49 +0000

Tomorrow, I’m going to Adobe Live 2007, the Dutch edition. It’s held in the RAI in Amsterdam and I’m looking forward to going, together with my fellow trainees from , Ruben Swieringa and Niels Bruin. Some interesting things to see I think. Especially the Flex 3 sneak preview by Waldo Smeets. But also ActionScript 3.0 with Joey Lott, Apollo for Developers with Mike Downey and a lot of new CS3 software talk will be quite interesting to see. I have created my own version of the program so I know where to be at what point in time to see the most interesting things in my humble opinion. This is what I came up with:

Hope to see you all there!

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Flex, Adobe now announces you Open Source

Wietse Veenstra — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:10:58 +0000

Today, in an official press-release, Adobe announced strategic plans to make Flex open source under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Check out the official press release and the info on Adobe Labs. David Wadhwani and Ely Greenfield explain Adobe’s decision a little more in this video. Great news!

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Free Flex and ActionScript 3.0 API posters!

Wietse Veenstra — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:07:39 +0000

<– they have stopped this service for the time being because of the overwhelming number of orders. Let’s hope that production will resume soon! –>

Maybe you have seen the gigantic API posters Adobe created for Flex and ActionScript 3.0. Well you can order them for free now! The only catch there is: you either have to write a blog post or put a link on your blog with the image to Flex.org. Small thing for 2 great posters! They are great resources and the posters are way better readable then the PDF versions. Check it out!

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Adobe Apollo alpha released on labs.

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:45:00 +0000

Adobe released Apollo alpha on their labs site. Let’s download and have some fun with it soon. Grab it overhere. More information can be found on the wiki and for the dutch readers/developers, there’s ofcourse my Dutch translation of the DeveloperFAQ.

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Apollo Developer FAQ in Dutch

Wietse Veenstra — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:52:56 +0000

I just finished translating the Developer FAQ for Adobe Apollo in Dutch. Check it out overhere. The original English version can be found here. If you have any suggestions or if you found errors in my translation, please let me know and I will update it.

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Flex 2.0.1 available!

Wietse Veenstra — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:17:39 +0000

Flex 2.0.1 has been released by Adobe Systems. The new version runs on Windows based systems but also on MAC and linux systems. Furthermore there are some improvements like CSS management at runtime and support for FlashType encoding. Also this new version is Apollo ready. Here you can find the downloadpage. And click here to read the release notes.

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Video: Christian Cantrell shows Apollo

Wietse Veenstra — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:58:48 +0000

In this video Mike Chambers interviews Christian Cantrell as he shows some apps in Apollo. Adobe Apollo will be the bridge between the internet and your desktop, it allows you to run native Flash and HTML on your desktop, interactive with all native components. It will be available for MAC as well as for PC.

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